“If we are the end product of so many years of time acting on matter as governed by chance, then we have no reason to believe any of our thoughts to be true. Our current thoughts, whatever they are, are the simple behavior exhibited by these chemicals under these conditions and at this temperature. And …
Standing on Air
“Either first principles are axiomatic and self-evident, or there are no principles at all anywhere, including the nihilistic principle that there are no principles” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 82).
Letters from the Kind of People Who Write Letters
Open Carry or No?: My wife and I can’t agree but it looks like you’re sporting a sidearm in your Twitter banner photo. That’s all. Jordan Jordan, I have a sidearm, but that fact cannot be ascertained from that photo. On Arrogance and Humility: Challenging and convicting, thank you, and the Holy Spirit for how …
More Than Difficult
“Autonomous and humanistic epistemology is the ultimate exercise in picking yourself up by your own coat collar, lifting yourself by your own bootstraps, or standing in a bucket in order to carry yourself upstairs” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 82).
The Outrage of Leggings as Tip of the Iceberg
Introduction and a Short List: I thought to use this space to inveigh against mixed metaphors, but also thought that some of my adversaries might charge me with a hypocritical inconsistency. So let me try a few other things out on you. I believe the vast majority of professing Christian wives would be a lot …
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Mastering the Nuances
Arrogance and Humility: Worlds in Collision.
Introduction: As we are engaged together in the endeavor of building an alternative school system, one natural question arises. Alternative to what? How can we be counter-cultural without knowing what culture we are countering, and what kind of culture we are countering with? Not surprisingly, the key to understanding this is understanding the lordship and …
Platt, Trump, Falwell and Maybe Some Others
Sorry to be late to this particular party, but this is one hopping circus, and it is hard to keep track of all the trapeze artists. I mean, some go this way while the others are going that way. So what happened was this. I summarize, and do so with the need for brevity in …
Letters Galore
Alternative Education: As someone who lives a hop, skip, and jump away from the finest little school in town (yes, public) and with four little tikes needing an education, I am having a hard time picturing what a well-rounded alternative to the public school looks like for our family. Granted the Lord can provide from …
The National Review Blind Spot
Introduction: I was going to title this piece Another French & Indian War, but when I looked it up I discovered that Sohrab Ahmari is of Iranian descent. So that didn’t work out, and let us hope that things improve a bit for me from here. And besides, this issue is not really about those …